The
Rubicon (
Latin:
Rubico,
Italian:
Rubicone) is both the name of a shallow
river in northeastern
Italy, just south of
Ravenna, and the name historically given to a river that was
famously crossed by
Julius Caesar in 49 B.C.E. While it has not been proven, historians generally agree that the two rivers are indeed one and the same; this was not always the case.